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Will get it even if you're vaccinated and boosted. mike, the cdc announced today that they are going to limit the number of isolation days, five days, from ten. rochelle walensky conceded they want something that's workable for the public, something they can swallow for this, and ten days was just too long. >> yeah, that's right, katy, at today's covid response briefing we had a lot of ground to cover, including questions about the availability and the accuracy of testing, questions about just what we're learning about the virus itself, questions about whether we'll be talking about a fourth b...

American life continue as much as normally as possible, even with case levels really exponentially growing, as you've been indicating. they also want to make sure they're doing everything by the science. this is an administration that has always said they're following the science. walensky has been stressing throughout the day that this five-day isolation period rather than ten days is something that's a result of that balancing test. because we know the symptoms and transmissibility tends to occur two to three days after or one to two days before, that's what led their decision to the five-da...

One is, you mentioned it, testing. the president obviously laying out a plan to get 500 million take-home tests to americans. we're going to see a website launched in the next few weeks as an effort to try to help with that. they've also launched these testing sites. we're going to see more of them over the next few weeks. the other issue that the white house is particularly focused on is trying to sort of avoid a further strain not just on our healthcare system but on american life in general. that was really the motivation behind some of those new cdc guidelines. you heard top health officia...

Because he simply did not make the showing that he needed to make in order to have these documents held back. it's a balancing test when you're talking about executive privilege, the right of a president to hold back documents. and you've got to show an overwhelming, compelling need for each individual document. and sometimes even a paragraph for a line on a document to be held back, and he just failed to do it. so once again, trump was brought down by lousy lawyering. >> of course we did come close to something much worse happening january 6th. let's talk about the contents of what's happenin...

No cars on the road. think about how far we've come. kids back in school. people back on the roads and people shopping -- >> i don't disagree with you, congresswoman. i live in the free state of florida with the much-maligned governor desantis. i was with mayor suarez in miami. these are people who know how to run things despite the pandemic raging. in florida we protected the most vulnerable, the elderly, we got vaccines, heavily testing. at the end of the clip, the author there references the amount of self-harm in young girls, right? there's a huge, huge health risk, a huge health cost of t...